A dual Moser-Onofri inequality and its extensions to higher dimensional spheres

DOI10.5802/AFST.1531zbMATH Open1370.35021arXiv1501.01267OpenAlexW2963498193MaRDI QIDQ2012072FDOQ2012072

Authors: Shirin Boroushaki, Martial Agueh, Nassif Ghoussoub 

Publication date: 27 July 2017

Published in: Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse. Mathématiques. Série VI (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We use optimal mass transport to provide a new proof and a dual formula to the Moser-Onofri inequality on $s^2$ in the same spirit as the approach of Cordero-Erausquin, Nazaret and Villani to the Sobolev inequality and of Agueh-Ghoussoub-Kang to more general settings. There are however many hurdles to overcome once a stereographic projection on $R^2$ is performed: Functions are not necessarily of compact support, hence boundary terms need to be evaluated. Moreover, the corresponding dual free energy of the reference probability density $m{u}_2(x)=frac1pi(1+|x{|}^2{)}^2$ is not finite on the whole space, which requires the introduction of a renormalized free energy into the dual formula. We also extend this duality to higher dimensions and establish an extension of the Onofri inequality to spheres $s^n$ with $ngeq2$. What is remarkable is that the corresponding free energy is again given by $F(ho)=-nh{o}^{1-frac1n}$, which means that both the {it prescribed scalar curvature problem} and the {it prescribed Gaussian curvature problem} lead essentially to the same dual problem whose extremals are stationary solutions of the fast diffusion equations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.01267

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zbMATH Keywords

fast diffusionmass transportprescribed Gaussian curvaturedual free energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear ordinary differential equations and systems (34A30) Nonlinear ordinary differential equations and systems (34A34) Inequalities applied to PDEs involving derivatives, differential and integral operators, or integrals (35A23) Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20) Functional inequalities, including subadditivity, convexity, etc. (39B62)

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